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Mr. Evelyn King
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what estimate she has of the total salary and wage payments, paid by the State in England and Wales to doctors, nurses and ancillary medical staff and administrative and clerical staff, respectively, excluding manual workers.
Mr. Meacher
Estimates of the present annual rates of expenditure by health authorities from central Government funds in England and Wales on salaries and wages payments to their staff in the categories mentioned are as follows:
| £ million | |
| Doctors and dentists | 235 |
| Nurses and midwives | 860 |
| Ancillary medical staff (professions supplementary to medicine and speech therapists) | 60 |
| Administrative and clerical staff | 215 |